Preview saving in wrong location

July 2024, same problem. Tried a "save as" with "Shift-Command-S" then, close it. It will then asks to delete but I can change destination at this moment. Change and save. Need to be redone each time. Weird!! Only Mac in the house doing this... Needs to be fixed!!

It is shift+option+cmd+S to force open a Save As… panel in Preview. That is even on the File menu when you just press the option key.

Provided one is on the local or iCloud filesystem, Preview will autosave changes to the same location as the opened file. Since I do not use any other Cloud solution (e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) I cannot comment on how Preview behaves when it has previously saved to those locations. My Preview on Sonoma 14.5 behaves exactly as it should with saved documents.

Apple is not here and posts about problems are only read by fellow users. So continuing with "me-too" posts here without more tangible information such as where the offending file has been saved won't gain much fix traction short of suggesting a reboot of the Mac, or if a non-Apple Cloud location, test Preview without that Cloud save involvement.

Me too!! Have you figured this out? I've been using Preview for years and have never had this problem